Republicans say cutting taxes on the rich is better than helping the unemployed. That's rubbish

A Mexican teen comedy of sexual awakening is the richest film of 2006. Plus: Don DeLillo's first film and an unsavory JT Leroy.

The GOP candidate measures a man in terms of sausage and pepperoni -- and with lame, emasculating words

Sam Phillips on Christian music and classic porn, working with T-Bone and her quietly successful comeback release.

Two new books document the death grip that Bush, Cheney and their corporate cronies have on America.

In her new novel, Jayne Anne Phillips, the princess of literary darkness, plumbs the emotional netherlands of motherhood.

Director Todd Phillips returns to the formula that made him millions. Twice

The network's silence on the reality TV patriarch once again making headlines for anti-gay remarks speaks volumes

What if "Forrest Gump," "Castaway" and "Captain Phillips" were just episodes in one embattled everyman's story?

The movie is a bundle of contradictions, equally transgressive and traditional. Them's the breaks of feminist art

Punk pioneer Mike Watt declines his glass coffin; ease up on Jar Jar already!

Fear the sober voices on the New York Times Op-Ed page and in the think tanks -- they're more dangerous than hawks

Sanders sticks by claim that he never said a woman couldn't win; Warren tries to rise above the entire debate

The new financial thriller depicts a gay man beaten and nearly killed. Is it all in good fun?

LGBTQ couples moving away from older cities defies the perceived connection between heterosexual families